Shape-memory effect controlled by the crosslinking topology in uniaxially-deformed smectic C elastomers

Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 209, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 298-307

  Hiraoka, Kazuyuki ^a   Tagawa, Naoto ^a   Baba, Kiminori ^a  

^a TOKYO POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial muscle; Elastomers; Liquid crystalline polymers (LCP); Shape memory; Smectic liquid crystals

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; ALIGNMENT; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTALS; ELASTOMERS; KETONES; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; METAL CLADDING; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHENOLS; PHOTORESISTS; PLASTICS; POLYMERS; RUBBER; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; COOLING PROCESSES; CROSS LINKERS; LAYER STRUCTURES; MEMORY EFFECTS; MESOGENS; MOLECULAR ALIGNMENTS; REVERSIBLE CHANGES; SAMPLE LENGTHS; SHAPE CHANGES; SHAPE MEMORY; SMECTIC LAYERS; SMECTIC PHASES; TEMPERATURE RANGES; TILT ANGLES;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 55349087932     PISSN: 10221352     EISSN: 15213935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/macp.200700387     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. H. Finkelmann, H. J. Kock, G. Rehage, Makromol. Chem., Rapid Commun. 1981, 2, 317.
2. R. Zentel, G. Reckert, Makromol Chem. 1986, 187, 1915.
3. G. R. Mitchell, F. J. Devis, A. Ashman, Polymer 1987, 28, 639.
4. H. R. Brand, H. Finkelmann, "Handbook of Liquid Crystals", Vol. 3, D. Dennis, J. Goodby, G. W. Gray, H.-W. Spiess, V. Vill, Eds., Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 1998, p. 277.
5. R. Zentel, Angew. Chem. Adv. Mater. 1989, 101, 1437.
6. F. J. Devis, J. Mater. Chem. 1993, 3, 551.
7. G. G. Barclay, C. K. Ober, Prog. Polym. Sci. 1993, 18, 899.
8. M. Warner, E. M. Terentjev, "Liquid Crystal Elastomers", Clarendon Press, Oxford 2003, p. 1-7 and p. 93-106.
9. J. Küpfer, H. Finkelmann, Makromol. Chem., Rapid Commun. 1991, 12, 717.
10. P. G. de Gennes, C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Ser. II 1997, 324, 343.
11. D. L. Thomsen, III, P. Keller, J. Naciri, R. Pink, H. Jeon, D. Shenoy, B. R. Ranta, Macromolecules 2001, 34, 5868.
12. H. Finkelmann, H. Wermter, Abstr. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 219, 189;
13. H. Wermter, H. Finkelmann,e-Polymers 2001, no. 013 {http://www.e-polymers.org/papers/finkelmann_210801.pdf).
14. A. R. Tajbakhsh, E. M. Terentjev, Eur. Phys. J. E. 2001, 6, 181.
15. E. Nishikawa, H. Finkelmann, H. R. Brand, Macromol. Rapid Commun. 1997, 18, 65.
16. J. J. Zanna, P. Stein, J. D. Marty, M. Mauzac, P. Martinoty, Macromolecules 2002, 35, 5459.
17. N. Aßfalg, H. Finkelmann, Macromol. Chem. Phys. 2001, 202, 794.
18. E. Nishikawa, J. Yamamoto, H. Yokoyama, H. Finkelmann, Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2004, 25, 611.
19. K. Hiraoka, A. Sagano, T. Nose, H. Finkelmann, Macromolecules 2005, 38, 7352.
20. O. Stenull, T. C. Lubensky, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2005, 94, 018304.
21. J. M. Adams, M. Warner, Phys. Rev. E 2006, 73, 031706.
22. C.M. Spillmann, B. R. Ratna, J. Naciri, Appl. Phys. Lett. 2007, 90, 021911.
23. A. Komp, H. Finkelmann, Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2007, 28, 55.
24. H. Finkelmann, H.-J. Kock, W. Gleim, G. Rehage, Makromol. Chem., Rapid Commun. 1984, 5, 287.
25. G. R. Mitchell, M. Coulter, F. J. Devis, J. Phys. II 1992, 2, 1121.
26. K. Hammerschmidt, H. Finkelmann, Makromol. Chem. 1989, 190, 1089.
27. A. Greve, H. Finkelmann, Macromol. Chem. Phys. 2001, 202, 2926.
28. K. Hiraoka, Y. Uematsu, P. Stein, H. Finkelmann, Macromol. Chem. Phys. 2002, 203, 2205.
29. K. Hiraoka, P. Stein, H. Finkelmann, Macromol. Chem. Phys. 2004, 205, 48.
30. E. M. Terentjev, M. Warner, J. Phys. II 1994, 4, 849.
31. I. Benné, K. Semmler, H. Finkelmann, Macromol. Rapid Commun. 1994, 15, 295.
32. T. Eckert, H. Finkelmann, M. Keck, W. Lehmann, F. Kremer, Macromol. Rapid Commun. 1996, 17, 767.
33. K. Semmler, H. Finkelmann, Polym. Adv. Technol. 1994, 5, 231;
34. K. Semmler, H. Finkelmann, Macromol. Chem. Phys. 1995, 196, 3197.